Preventing Stone Chips on Rocker Panels?

[Crich]

I have a 2022 Sport Quad cab. Every spring I get stone chips on the rocker panels which I have to touch up with a touchup pen. This is at the end of the rocker panels where the fin is spot welded together. I get a lot of snow where I live so I am in 4 wheel drive alot, which is what is causing all the stone chips.
Does anyone have recommendations on how to protect this fin from stones hitting? I was considering rock rails but am not sure if they even would cover the area I need covered. Plus there doesn't seem to be rock rails available for the quad cab. I also thought about the power running boards? Does anyone know if this would protect the rockers? Right now I don't have running boards or mud guards. My friend had the stock mud guards and the ice buildup in the wheel wells knocked them loose and they rubbed the paint off underneath the mud flaps so he had to get the whole bottom part of the truck repainted after 5 years.

Let me know if any of you have this issue and what you did to stop the paint chips.

 

[RAM Patriot]

I purchased a roll of 3M Wrap Series 1080 - Matte Deep Black -M22 to wrap the rocker panels on the truck.


It took me a day per side since I'm an amateur at wrapping and there are a lot of twist and turns around the door sills.

I did wrap to the pinch welds.



I took an exact o blade and cut around the drain plugs.

 

[Crich]

Ok that looks clean. When you say you wrapped to the pinch welds do you mean you didn't fully wrap around the pinch weld? Would 3m even work on such a sharp edge? I feel that the stones might still chip through the 3m?

 

[Rebel-4x4]

Just Raptor coat it. you can tint it so it looks like your truck.

 

[Crich]

Just Raptor coat it. you can tint it so it looks like your truck.

Ya that might be the best option. I am getting rhino spray bedliner done soon, but didn't realize they can match the paint colour so I'll prob do that thanks